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gan points. He spoke favorably of red gum 

 conditions. 



J. C. Knox, Cadillac, Midi., secretary o£ tlie 

 Micliigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, 

 also attended tbe recent meeting of tbe Inter- 

 state Commerce Commission in Chicago. Re- 

 garding hardwood conditions, Mr. Knox had 

 only good words. He stated that considerable 

 of the low-grade stock is now being utilized 

 for railroad ties. 



It is announced at the offices of the Huddles- 

 ton-Marsb Lumber Company, Chicago, that it has 

 taken over D. W. Walker, who has been inti- 

 mately engaged in the mahogany business for 

 many years. For the last tifteen months he lias 

 been traveling on his own account and is thor- 

 oughly familiar with the mahogany, fancy wood, 

 veneer and glued-up stock of his new employers. 



Charles A. Geier, yard manager of the Otis 

 Manufacturing Company, New Orle.ans, La., spent 

 a couple of days in Chicago this week on busi- 

 ness. 



NEW YORK 



Stone & Ilershey, a prominent wholesale house 

 of Newark, N. J., has just been expanded through 

 the admission to the firm of R. V. Gibson of 

 Newark and II. P. Goodrich of New York, and 

 will hereafter be know'n under the style of Stone, 

 Hershey & Gibson. Mr. Gibson has for years 

 been identified with the wholesale trade of New- 

 ark, and Mr. Goodrich being well known in a 

 like capacity in the Metropolitan District. The 

 admission of these new interests will greatly 

 strengthen the selling end of this successful 

 house and make it a stronger factor than ever 

 in the Newark and Metropolitan District trade. 



D. N. Meighen has opened headquarters at 1 

 Madison avenue to represent directly W. C. Ed- 

 warda & Co.. of Ottawa. Out., and the Robinson- 

 Edwards Lumber Company of Burlington, Vt., in 

 the Metropolitan District trade. For the past 

 year the products of these well-known companies 

 have been distributed by the Manufacturers' 

 Lumber Company, but under tbe new arrange- 

 ment will be sold direct by Mr. Meighen. 



C. B. Thomson, for the past twenty years iden- 

 tified with Frederick \V. Cole, wholesaler of 29 

 Broadway, has severed his connection with Mr. 

 Cole to engage in a wholesale lumber business on 

 his own account, with headquarters at 1 Madison 

 avenue. Mr. Thomson is widely and favorably 

 known, and his many friends in the trade wish 

 him every success in his new departure. 



Moore Brothers, the well-known retail hard- 

 wood house located at Twenty-fourth street and 

 Eleventh avenue, whose yard was completely 

 wiped out by fire on October 3, 1010, have en- 

 tirely rebuilt their plant with brick structures 

 and have grouped within their warehouses a 

 large and high-class stock of seasoned hardwoods. 



Horsey & Mills, Inc., is the name of a new 

 concern just organized with headquarters at 4,") 

 Broadway, by G. H. Horsey, formerly with F. D. 

 Langstroth & Co., city, and B. S. Mills of Wil- 

 mington, N. C. They will handle a general line 

 of yellow pine and cypress. Mr. Horsey will look 

 after the New York end of the business, Mr. 

 Mills devoting his attention to the southern end, 

 with headquarters at Wilmington, N. C. 



BUFFALO 



The Hugh McLean Lumber Company denies 

 the recently published report that its headquar- 

 ters is to be removed shortly to Cincinnati. The 

 company has had yard property in that city for 

 several years and in the future may stock it 

 with hardwoods, but has no intention of giving 

 up its well-located yard in Buffalo. 



The .Tames H. Walsh Company has been suc- 

 ceeded by the National Lumber Company. The 

 officers of the new concern are James A. White, 

 president ; U. L. Vetter, secretary : H. B. Cor- 

 sline, treasurer. Mr. Corsline will be in charge. 



The yard is well located in the hardwood sec- 

 tion on Seneca street and will carry a large 

 stock of hardwoods. A switch was recently put 

 in to connect with the Tennsylvania railroad. 



The firm of Taylor & Mason, which has been 

 in operation here for several years, has been 

 dissolved. The business W"ill bo continued by 

 S. B. Taylor & Co., the principal interest in 

 the new firm being that of Mr. Taylor. Mr. 

 Mason will continue in the lumber business, but 

 has not yet announced his plans. 



J. M. Briggs is planning a trip to be made 

 within a few days to the .\dirondacks, where 

 the firm of J. M. Briggs & Co. has a large 

 amount of spruce and other hardwoods, the 

 shipments of which have been somewhat haudj- 

 capped re<-ently by an uuusual amouut of stormy 

 weather. 



M. M. Wall, chairman of the lumber commit- 

 tee of the C^'bamher of Commerce, and president 

 of the Lumber Exchange, advocates reciprocity 

 with Canada in the April Live Wire, as bene- 

 ficial both to the American dealer and consumer. 



Hugh McLean and R. D. McLean have been 

 spending some time in Chattanooga on account 

 of the fire which destroyed the McLean Lumber 

 Company's mill there on the night of March 22. 

 An account of this fire is given elsewhere in 

 this issue. 



F. W. Vetter states that there has been an 

 unusual demand for ash recently at his yard. 

 Sales in that wood last month were larger with 

 him than they had been in a good many previous 

 months. 



J. N. Scatcherd attended tbe funeral of a 

 relative. Miss Winifred S^-atcherd. at London. 

 Ont., on March 29, and spent several days at his 

 old home farm in the neighborhood of that city. 



Among the lumbermen attending the commis- 

 sion government hearing before the joint legis- 

 lative committee at Albany were Knowlton 

 Mixer, Horace F. Taylor. B. E. Darling. A. .T. 

 Elias, I. N. Stewart and F. W. Vetter. 



PHILADELPHIA 



J. E. Troth of the J. S. Kent Company reports 

 a lack of vigor in trading. However, the volume 

 of business has been fair and prospects for tbe 

 near future are encouraging. 



Charles K. Parry of Charles K. Parry & Co. 

 states that March trading has proved the best 

 his company has ever had, and he is optimistic 

 as to spring business. 



W. .1. Mingus of Mingus & Rutter admits that 

 business has been somewhat spasmodic, but the 

 totality for the month has been satisfactory and 

 he is cheerfully disposed as to outlook. 



William P. Shearer of Samuel H. Shearer 

 iSc Son says that orders are coming in right 

 along and he anticipates a positively healthy 

 business from now on. Samuel H. ,Sbearor has 

 just returned from a pleasant stay at Atlantic 

 City. N. .7. 



H. Billetter. manager of tbe Philadelphia 

 branch of the Lumber Insurers' General Agency. 

 New York, recently returned from a trip through 

 his territor.v. He reports that while trading is 

 somewhat slow just at present the general feel- 

 ing is decidedly optimistic regarding spring busi- 

 ness. From an insurance standpoint he states 

 that he has no reason whatever to complain, as 

 be is building up a constantly increasing volume 

 of business. 



The annual meeting of the Lumbermen's Ex- 

 change of Philadelphia will be held at the ex- 

 change headquarters, Crozer building, on April 

 13, and will be followed by the usual banquet at 

 the Union League. ' 



Robert W. and .John H. Schofleld of Schofiebl 

 Brothers and the Saltkeatchic Lumber Company, 

 Schofleld, S. C, have just returned from the mill, 

 where they attended the annual meeting of the 

 company. They report a very satisfactory show- 

 ing for tbe year's business and predict similar 

 good results for 1911. 



Emit Guenther as usual is conservative in his 

 statements regarding trade conditions. He ad- 

 mits that business has shown some improvement 

 and that the outlook is favorable. 



T. S. Clark, aged sixty-two, died recently at 

 his homo in Williamsport, Pa. He was one of 

 the best known lumbermen in the state and a 

 member of Brown, Clark & Howe, Mr. Clark was 

 a thirty-third degree Mason. 



Henry Kurtz, a retired civil engineer and 

 wealthy timber land owner, died recently at 

 Heading, Pa., aged fifty-six. 



Morris M. Wood, a former lumber dealer, died 

 on March 23 in this city. He left an estate of 

 .fTT.OOO to his family. 



The Featberman Furniture Company, Connells- 

 ville. Pa., obtained a charter under Pennsylvania 

 laws on March 23. Its capitalization is $20,000. 



The Goldsmith Furniture Company, Pittsburg, 

 f*a.. was incorporated on March 23 with a capital 

 stock of $15,000. 



The East Stroudsburg Lumber Company, East 

 Stroudsburg, Pa., obtained a charter under Penn- 

 sylvania laws March 30. Tbe new company is 

 capitalized at .|25.000. 



The Acme Veneer & Body Company, Rahway, 

 N. J., was incorporated March 30 with a capital 

 slock of .$100,000. 



PITTSBURO 



The Linehan Lumijer Company has moved from 

 Ihe May building to the Fulton building and the 

 Forest I^umber Company has also moved from the 

 Diamond building to the Fulton building. The 

 Mead & Speer Lumber Company has left its old 

 home in the Park building and is now quartered 

 in the new Jenkins Arcade building, where Ham- 

 ilton Brothers Lumber Company is also to be 

 found. 



Pittsburg building operations to date for 1911 

 show a total of $29,784,000, as compared with 

 Slo,729,000 for the corresponding period of 1910. 

 This year's total is fifty per cent larger thus far 

 than for-otber years. 



The Palmer & Semaus Lumber Company is re- 

 ceiving a nice lot of orders and finds its trade 

 steadily increasing. Its newly established office 

 at Philadelphia is getting well under way. I. F. 

 Ealsley, sales manager, is on an eastern trip this 

 week. 



The A. M. Kinney Lumber Company is starting 

 a new hardwood mill this week at South Heights 

 on the P. & L. E. railroad. Mr. Kinney reports 

 a very good Inquiry for railroad and mining 

 stock and believes that be is going to have a 

 busy summer this year. 



President R. A. McDonald of the McDonald 

 Lumber Company announces that his company 

 now has all the good business that it can take 

 care of and that very fair prices are being se- 

 cured. 



The Goodwin Lumber Company has been doing 

 a nice business in hardwoods this spring under 

 the management of E. II. Schreiner. Its West 

 Virginia plant is kept busy and is turning out a 

 splendid lot of hardwood. 



The Breitwieser-Wilson Lumber Company re- 

 ports an excellent business tor March, its sales 

 having been the largest ever made by that 

 concern. 



The Newell Brothers Lumber Company is wind- 

 ing up its operation at Braucher Station, W. Va., 

 where it has been cutting hardwood and oak for 

 some three years. Its new operation in West 

 Virginia is getting shaped up finely under the 

 direction of J. A. Newell, and good shipments 

 are being made right along. 



W. P. Craig of the W. P. Craig Lumber Com- 

 pany is making a splendid record in shipments, 

 but finds that orders are coming slow. Mr. Craig 

 announces that the company's mills are busy and 

 that as soon as this temporary slump in buying 

 is over, he looks for a busy season. 



Hemis & Vosburgh are doing a steady and very 



